TEH_04 . CatConnect with Allison Malisnky
TODAY at our listening test with The English HOUR, Marcela Topor interviews American artist Allison Malisnky
http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/157470570.html
(02/03/2016 -- 30 min) Correspondent: Laura Sotoca
For our first part, listen up to the minute 13:15 and answer the 14 questions:
Q1. Where does her surname come from?
Q2. Where is she from? When did she move to New York and why?
Q3. Which things does she value most from the place she grew up?
Q4. In which sense her first degree did not satisfy her... so what did she learn in the end?
Q5. What is interesting about her awareness of becoming an artist?
Q6. What things does she say that she remember from high school?
Q7. Does New York stand for a "city that never sleeps" when you are an artist?
Q8. How did a friend put her on the track for Barcelona?
Q9. How true was it that "All we need is love" to make a serious-minded artist end up in BAR- CEL-ONA?
Q10. What are the best things she values in her studio?
Q11. How has she and her artwork been influenced by living in Barcelona?
Q12. Why couldn't she work on her studio in New York? What project does she describe? Q13. Why did she start doing 3D paintings?
Q14. What does it represent for her the yellow-brown 3D painting showed?
TEH_04 . CatConnect with Allison Malisnky_14Q____ KEY
Q1. Where does her surname come from?
It comes from Eastern Europe. Her great grandparents were Russian. (0:20-->)
Q2. Where is she from? When did she move to New York and why?
She is from New Hampshire and she moved to New York at 17, to study in the NY University. (1:05-->)
Q3. Which things does she value most from the place she grew up?
She is grateful to her parents for raising her there. She remembers simple things such as watching trees, listening to the noises from nature or smelling those smells from the country. (1:20-->)
Q4. In which sense her first degree did not satisfy her... so what did she learn in the end?
A few years later she decided to go to the graduate University and study photography, but finally she realized that she preferred work with her hands and for her thesis for graduate school she changed and did painting. (2:05-->)
Q5. What is interesting about her awareness of becoming an artist?
It wasn’t a decision; it was part of her. She remembers herself all her life watching TV, or simply listening to it and making things with her hands. Making creations and little works in her room. (3:00 -->)
Q6. What things does she say that she remember from high school?
She remembers herself skipping classes except sciences and going to the art
room. (3:40-->)
Q7. Does New York stand for a "city that never sleeps" when you are an artist?
Q1. Where does her surname come from?
It comes from Eastern Europe. Her great grandparents were Russian. (0:20-->)
Q2. Where is she from? When did she move to New York and why?
She is from New Hampshire and she moved to New York at 17, to study in the NY University. (1:05-->)
Q3. Which things does she value most from the place she grew up?
She is grateful to her parents for raising her there. She remembers simple things such as watching trees, listening to the noises from nature or smelling those smells from the country. (1:20-->)
Q4. In which sense her first degree did not satisfy her... so what did she learn in the end?
A few years later she decided to go to the graduate University and study photography, but finally she realized that she preferred work with her hands and for her thesis for graduate school she changed and did painting. (2:05-->)
Q5. What is interesting about her awareness of becoming an artist?
It wasn’t a decision; it was part of her. She remembers herself all her life watching TV, or simply listening to it and making things with her hands. Making creations and little works in her room. (3:00 -->)
Q6. What things does she say that she remember from high school?
She remembers herself skipping classes except sciences and going to the art
room. (3:40-->)
Q7. Does New York stand for a "city that never sleeps" when you are an artist?
Q8. How did a friend put her on the track for Barcelona?
She came to Barcelona 8 year ago and she felt in love with this city. Then before she moved that last time, as she has a friend who has a protocol “before I die...” and she promised herself that before she dies she wanted to move to Barcelona, and that’s it! (5:50-->)
Q9. How true was it that "All we need is love" to make a serious-minded artist end up in BAR-CEL-ONA?
She had to leave New York because she needed silence and a quiet life for painting. She got a grant from the Spanish council to teach English in Spain. She thought of spending 2 years in Spain but during that time she met her husband and then she moved to Barcelona "as she followed the road of the heart", 2 years ago. (6:30-->)
Q10. What are the best things she values in her studio?
It has perfect light. The view, it’s over the Seminary. The fact that it’s next to plaça
Universitat, it has free space and the air and light comes into it. (7:20-->)
Q11. How has she and her artwork been influenced by living in Barcelona?
Her work has changed a lot..... it is about femininity, emotions and gestures; but it’s about space and light here: light and shadow make volume and in BCN you have a lot of that, you can be in an open space like the beach with shiny light and also being in a closer space. (7:50-->)
Q12. Why couldn't she work on her studio in New York? What project does she describe?
Of course places change people. In New York, Space is a premium (very expensive), her Studio was horrendous and dim (no light), so she went to Grand Hotels, to catch interaction between people and space. (9:15-->)
Q13. Why did she start doing 3D paintings?
Because she was painting 2D paintings in a sculptural, but she decided that it was enough and she needed one more step forward. Then she started working with textures and 3 dimensional paintings, which really change with light, but they also need more space to show those changes. (11:20-->)
Q14. What does it represent for her the yellow-brown 3D painting showed? It is someone sunbathing. (12:50-->)
She came to Barcelona 8 year ago and she felt in love with this city. Then before she moved that last time, as she has a friend who has a protocol “before I die...” and she promised herself that before she dies she wanted to move to Barcelona, and that’s it! (5:50-->)
Q9. How true was it that "All we need is love" to make a serious-minded artist end up in BAR-CEL-ONA?
She had to leave New York because she needed silence and a quiet life for painting. She got a grant from the Spanish council to teach English in Spain. She thought of spending 2 years in Spain but during that time she met her husband and then she moved to Barcelona "as she followed the road of the heart", 2 years ago. (6:30-->)
Q10. What are the best things she values in her studio?
It has perfect light. The view, it’s over the Seminary. The fact that it’s next to plaça
Universitat, it has free space and the air and light comes into it. (7:20-->)
Q11. How has she and her artwork been influenced by living in Barcelona?
Her work has changed a lot..... it is about femininity, emotions and gestures; but it’s about space and light here: light and shadow make volume and in BCN you have a lot of that, you can be in an open space like the beach with shiny light and also being in a closer space. (7:50-->)
Q12. Why couldn't she work on her studio in New York? What project does she describe?
Of course places change people. In New York, Space is a premium (very expensive), her Studio was horrendous and dim (no light), so she went to Grand Hotels, to catch interaction between people and space. (9:15-->)
Q13. Why did she start doing 3D paintings?
Because she was painting 2D paintings in a sculptural, but she decided that it was enough and she needed one more step forward. Then she started working with textures and 3 dimensional paintings, which really change with light, but they also need more space to show those changes. (11:20-->)
Q14. What does it represent for her the yellow-brown 3D painting showed? It is someone sunbathing. (12:50-->)
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